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11 Million Impacted by Capcom Data Breach
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11 Million Impacted by Capcom Data Breach

Capcom disclosed a breach of CAPCOM ID, its shared login service for online games, discovered on 19 October. Attackers took 11,774,247 email addresses plus account metadata (creation date, last login, login count, last IP). For 43 users dates of birth, gender, country and nicknames were also exposed, and passwords were changed on 196 accounts. Capcom says no passwords were stolen, reset the affected accounts, and warns of impersonation emails. The root cause is not stated.

TL;DR Capcom reports CAPCOM ID intrusion exposing 11.77 million email addresses, with extra personal data for 43 users and password changes on 196 accounts.

Organisations named here

  • Capcom
  • CAPCOM ID

Techniques named here

  • Account tampering
  • Phishing risk